{"id":4182,"date":"2023-04-04T10:55:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T05:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=4182"},"modified":"2023-03-31T17:44:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T12:14:34","slug":"history-of-4-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-4-april\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 4 April"},"content":{"rendered":"

History of 4 April<\/h2>\n

1902<\/strong> – British Financier Cecil Rhodes left $10 million in his will that would provide scholarships for Americans to Oxford University in England.<\/p>\n

1905<\/strong> – In Kangra, India, an earthquake killed 370,000 people.<\/p>\n

1914<\/strong> – The first known serialized moving picture opened in New York City,\u00a0NY. It was “The Perils of Pauline”.<\/p>\n

1917<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Senate voted 90-6 to enter World War I on the Allied side.<\/p>\n

1918<\/strong> – The Battle of Somme, an offensive by the British against the German Army ended.<\/p>\n

1932<\/strong> – After five years of research, professor C.G. King, of the University of Pittsburgh, isolated vitamin C.<\/p>\n

1945<\/strong> – Hungary was liberated from Nazi occupation.<\/p>\n

1945<\/strong> – During World War II,\u00a0U.S.\u00a0forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany.<\/p>\n

1949<\/strong> – Twelve nations signed a treaty to create The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).<\/p>\n

1953<\/strong> – Fifteen doctors were released by Soviet leaders. The doctors had been arrested before Stalin had died and were accused of plotting against him.<\/p>\n

1967<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0lost its 500th plane over Vietnam.<\/p>\n

1967<\/strong> – Johnny Carson quit “The Tonight Show.” He returned three weeks later after getting a raise of $30,000 a week.<\/p>\n

1968<\/strong> – Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the age of 39.<\/p>\n

1969<\/strong> – Dr. Denton Cooley implanted the first temporary artificial heart.<\/p>\n

1971<\/strong> – Veterans stadium in Philadelphia,\u00a0PA, was dedicated this day.<\/p>\n

1973<\/strong> – In New York, the original World Trade Center twin towers opened. At the time they were the tallest building in the world.<\/p>\n

1974<\/strong> – Hank Aaron tied Babe Ruth’s major league baseball home-run record with 714.<\/p>\n

1975<\/strong> – More than 130 people, most of them children, were killed when a\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Air Force transport plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans crashed just after takeoff from Saigon.<\/p>\n

1979<\/strong> – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the president of Pakistan, was executed. He had been convicted of conspiring to murder a political opponent.<\/p>\n

1981<\/strong> – Henry Cisneros became the first Mexican-American elected mayor of a major\u00a0U.S.\u00a0city, which was San Antonio,\u00a0TX.<\/p>\n

1983<\/strong> – At Cape Canaveral, the space shuttle Challenger took off on its first flight. It was the sixth flight overall for the shuttle program.<\/p>\n

1984<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Reagan\u00a0proposed an international ban on chemical weapons.<\/p>\n

1985<\/strong> – In Sudan, a coup ousted President Nimeiry and replaced him with General Dahab.<\/p>\n

1986<\/strong> – Wayne Gretzky set an\u00a0NHL\u00a0record with his 213th point of the season.<\/p>\n

1987<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0charged the Soviet Union with wiretapping a\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Embassy.<\/p>\n

1988<\/strong> –\u00a0Arizona\u00a0Governor Evan Mecham was voted out of office by the\u00a0Arizona\u00a0Senate. Mecham was found guilty of diverting state funds to his auto business and of trying to impede an investigation into a death threat to a grand jury witness.<\/p>\n

1990<\/strong> – In the\u00a0U.S., securities law violator Ivan Boesky was released from federal custody.<\/p>\n

1991<\/strong> –\u00a0Pennsylvanian\u00a0Senator John Heinz and six others were killed when a helicopter collided with Heinz’s plane over a schoolyard in Merion,\u00a0PA.<\/p>\n

1992<\/strong> – Sali Berisha became the first non-Marxist president of Albania since World War II.<\/p>\n

1994<\/strong> – Netscape Communications (Mosaic Communications) was founded.<\/p>\n

1995<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Senator Alfonse D’Amato ridiculed judge Lance Ito using a mock Japanese accent on a nationally syndicated radio program. D’Amato apologized two days later for the act.<\/p>\n

1999<\/strong> – The Colorado Rockies and the San Diego Padres played the first\u00a0major league\u00a0season opener to be held in Mexico. The Rockies beat the Padres 8-2.<\/p>\n

2002<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Angolan\u00a0government and\u00a0UNITA\u00a0rebels sign a peace treaty ending the\u00a0Angolan Civil War.<\/p>\n

2009<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0France\u00a0returns to being a member of\u00a0NATO.<\/p>\n

2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 More than 70 people are killed in a\u00a0building collapse\u00a0in\u00a0Thane,\u00a0India.<\/p>\n

Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
    \n
  • 1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Currensy, American rapper<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Eduardo Lu\u00eds Carloto, Brazilian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Casey Daigle, American baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Anna Pyatykh, Russian triple jumper<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ned Vizzini, American author, and screenwriter (d. 2013)<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Justin Cook, American voice actor, and producer<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Magnus Lindgren, Swedish chef (d. 2012)<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Evgeny Artyukhin, Russian ice hockey player<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Eric Andre, American comedian<\/sup><\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ben Gordon, American basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Doug Lynch, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Natalie Pike, Scottish-English model, and actress<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Amanda Righetti, American actress<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Sean May, American basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Arkady Vyatchanin, Russian swimmer<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Rudy Fernandez, Spanish basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Dudi Sela, an Israeli tennis player<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ricardo Vilar, Brazilian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Eunhyuk, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Cameron Barker, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Maurice Manificat, French skier<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Aiden McGeady, Scottish-born Irish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Alexander Tettey, Norwegian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Sami Khedira, German footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0McDonald Mariga, Kenyan footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Cameron Maybin, American baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Marcos Vellidis, Greek footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Sarah Gadon, Canadian actress<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Frank Fielding, English footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Vurnon Anita, Dutch footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Steven Finn, English cricketer<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Chris Herd, Australian footballer<\/sup><\/li>\n
  • 1991<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Yui Koike, Japanese singer, and actress<\/li>\n
  • 1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Justin O’Neill, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n
  • 1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jamie Lynn Spears, American actress and singer<\/li>\n
  • 1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Marlon St\u00f6ckinger, Filipino race car driver<\/sup><\/li>\n
  • 1992<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Lucy May Barker, English actress and singer<\/li>\n
  • 1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Christina Metaxa, Cypriot singer-songwriter<\/li>\n
  • 1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ricky Dillon, American youtuber and singer<\/li>\n
  • 1993<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Samir Carruthers, English footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1993<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Frank Kaminsky, American basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1994<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Shunsuke Nishikawa, Japanese actor<\/li>\n
  • 1994<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Risako Sugaya, Japanese singer and actress<\/li>\n
  • 1996<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Austin Mahone, American singer-songwriter and actor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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